What is the criterion for eating meat and inquiring about the one who slaughtered it?
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The questioner : They report regarding meat that one should not inquire about it.
The Shaykh : It is necessary to distinguish: for example, a man from Damascus goes to a Druze village, where most of the butchers are Druze. If these people slaughter according to the Islamic method, their slaughter is not to be eaten because they are not People of the Book, so this question is necessary.
The questioner : Sometimes, when I travel abroad, I do not even think about inquiring; I simply do not eat at all.
The Shaykh : That is the safer course.
The questioner : Because most of their slaughter is not halal.
The Shaykh : It is this.
The questioner : Exactly.
Another questioner : ...regarding cheese and fish.
The Shaykh : Cheese and fish?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : As for fish, of course, Allah has made it lawful for the children of Adam, hehehe. As for cheese: "The Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat cheese that came from the lands of Persia."
The questioner : But the danger in their food is that much of it, even if the obvious, superficial matter is that it is halal, you find that it contains some pork fat.
The Shaykh : The fat, yes.
The questioner : Or the fat, the butter, even the biscuits and the bread.
Another questioner: Correct.
The questioner : But they have another advantage: they write the contents on most packaged items.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : So you find that it is written.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah.
The student : I mean, even our Shaykh, regarding foods that appear to be halal, for example, things from the sea that are fried, they put with them the "fino," a type of intoxicant, meaning they put it with most of the foods.
The Shaykh : They pour the intoxicants into the food?
The student : Yes, indeed, so it helps.
Another student: My master, they pour it in, they pour it in and burn it off, meaning in some foods it is known that they are not made except with alcohol, certain types of alcohol, so they prepare, for example, a slice of meat.
The Shaykh : It is necessary to distinguish: for example, a man from Damascus goes to a Druze village, where most of the butchers are Druze. If these people slaughter according to the Islamic method, their slaughter is not to be eaten because they are not People of the Book, so this question is necessary.
The questioner : Sometimes, when I travel abroad, I do not even think about inquiring; I simply do not eat at all.
The Shaykh : That is the safer course.
The questioner : Because most of their slaughter is not halal.
The Shaykh : It is this.
The questioner : Exactly.
Another questioner : ...regarding cheese and fish.
The Shaykh : Cheese and fish?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : As for fish, of course, Allah has made it lawful for the children of Adam, hehehe. As for cheese: "The Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat cheese that came from the lands of Persia."
The questioner : But the danger in their food is that much of it, even if the obvious, superficial matter is that it is halal, you find that it contains some pork fat.
The Shaykh : The fat, yes.
The questioner : Or the fat, the butter, even the biscuits and the bread.
Another questioner: Correct.
The questioner : But they have another advantage: they write the contents on most packaged items.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : So you find that it is written.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah.
The student : I mean, even our Shaykh, regarding foods that appear to be halal, for example, things from the sea that are fried, they put with them the "fino," a type of intoxicant, meaning they put it with most of the foods.
The Shaykh : They pour the intoxicants into the food?
The student : Yes, indeed, so it helps.
Another student: My master, they pour it in, they pour it in and burn it off, meaning in some foods it is known that they are not made except with alcohol, certain types of alcohol, so they prepare, for example, a slice of meat.
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